The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, January 27, 1922, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATIC
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922
EXTENDING THE TIME.
It is hard just now to pay debts i
any kind. Money is scarce for this <
any other purpose. It is harder to pi
taxes than anything else because
seems an awful hardship to pay tl
enormous amounts now demanded
order to make people be good wlu
they should be born that way.
But with all this we do not st
that any great gpod is to be accoi
plished by extending the time f<
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Lne payiucuv wi waeo aw* ? -? j --
It is no more difficult to get tl
money for that purpose now than
will be in June. The taxes must i
paid and unless some advantage
to be secured, unless the burden
to be lightened or made easier 1
bear, we confess to an inability 1
see any good reason why the tin
should be extended for meeting tl
government's demands.
There are serious objections, to<
to the extension. The State of Thuri
day points out one of the most ser
ous objections, and that is that moi
ey has been borrowed by the stal
for the payment of which the. tax<
to be collected have been pledge
actually or in effect. This money
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shortly. It canhot be paid withoi
the taxes are paid because the moi
ey cannot, be bad otherwise. Th
state govenMBorct- is run on borrowe
money, and heretofore we have bee
borrowing from Northern banks ?
low rates of interest. We have s<
eured favorable terms because th
banks from which we borrowed r<
garded the notes of the state as gilc
edged paper. If, however, these note
are not to be paid at maturity, tb
credit of the state will be impaire<
and the ability to borrow in the fi
ture on favorable terms will be lik<
wise impaired. That is a consider*
tion of serious moment for the taj
payers, because they pay the intei
est charged aa well as the principj
and if interest rates are to be raii
ed, the taxpayers must do the paj
fog, The* again most of the mone
feorrOWfKi &oes to pay bills in th
fttetc. Thaw the ?t?te governraen
and officers eannot pay unless th
money is procured, and it is doubtfi
.whether the State officers may b
'Ale to borrow from year to year i
previous obligations are not paid a
maturity. If we cannot borrow some
body must wait, and that mean
state officials and other persons wh
look to the state for compensatio
for work done. It means that th
state's institutions will suffer becaus
if it is attempted to run them o
credit all kinds of difficulties will h
encountered.
The same may be said of the coui
ties. Abbeville County, for instanc
borrows each year the money 1
pay current bills, pledging the tax*
which are paid in the fall and ear
part of the year for payment. If v
do not pay what we borrowed la
year we may not expect the ban)
to loan us for the present year. Oi
credit will be impaired and at tl
same time the county will not be ab
to pay its current bills.
There is another consideration i
great importance. Most of the mom
borrowed by the county is borrow*
from Northern hs?nlt?:. A a nlronriv i
dicated these banks expect collectio
to be made when notes become du
and it is a serious matter to defav
in meeting these obligations. For th
reason Abbeville County and eve
other county is forced to call on 1
local banks to help out when the
notes become due and payable aj
there is no money in the coun
treasury to meet them. The reeult
that when local banks are able
help the surplus money of the ban
iB thus absorbed and taken out
the county, and these banks are 1
that amount less able to take ea
of the wants of the people at home.
This is going to be a year in which
all of us mast look almost solely to
the banks for help in agricultural
matters, and it is a mistake to bring
about a state of affairs which neces
sitates the carrying of money away
, from our own locality.
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Then again the people here are
borrowers. They borrow largely on
lands for the purchase of other
00 lands, or to pay the purchase money
00 of particular lands. The money bor
50
rowed is secured by mortgages. The
ve integrity of these mortgages ' de
pends on the taxes being paid. If
the people do not pay their taxes
this year, and if next August a man
disposed to make loans in this state
comes here and finds one year's tax
es in default and another year's tax
es about due, he will conclude that
this is no state in which to make
loans. Capital will be driven away
from the state and the farmers and
others who desire to borrow on lands,
or otherwise, will find themselves
in handicapped. Low interest rates can
>n be commaflded only by prompt set
tlement of obligations.
We believe therefore that it would
be wise to demand the payment of
taxes under the existing law, and that
it will be unwise to extend the time
for payment of taxes. Last year's
experience taught us that this is true.
SHOALS AT CALHOUN FALLS
The Daily Mail notes with interest
that the Greenwood chamber of com
merce is trying to interest Henry
Ford in the 9hoals on Savannah river
near Calhoun Falls. The announce
ment is made that secretary of the
chamber has written Mr Ford calling
his attention to these falls accompani
ed by the statement that as much
u t_ _ j
power couia oe ueveiupeu yicic <u> av
Muscle Shoals, and expressing the
hope that he would look into the
matter, pledging him all the co-oper
ation possible, in the event that the
proposition appealed to him.
. The statement is made that ac
cording to engineera who have look
ed over the situation, the possibili
ties are immense, that there are
seventy-five feet falls on that part of
the river between Abbeville county
in South Carolina and Elbert county
in Georgia with shoals that run for
miles up the river, bordered by high
hills on either side which make it
possible to build dams with compara
tive ease that would turn the river in
to a great lake, and in this way bring
into use immense power which is go
ing to waste and which only needs to
be developed.
We are glad that Greenwood has
called Mr Ford's attention to this
matter, and we are sure that not on
ly are Abbeville and Anaerson ready
to do thedr parts toward interesting
Mr Pord, but that calls for the co
operation pf the whole state, as there
is no estimating the benefits to South
Carolina that would <be derived from
e the development of these shoals. But
why stop with Henry Ford? If he
cannot be interested, then efforts
should be made in other directions,
and continued until same definite ac
tion is taken. The indications, at
present, seem to be favorable for
Mr Ford to secure the lease of Muscle
Shoals, but this may encourage
rather than cause him not to consid
er this proposition, as he is a man of
unlimited vison who is constantly on
the lookout for big things.
This matter appeals especially to
our agricultural interests as we un
derstand that the primary purpose in
the development of places of this
kind, (by Henry Ford is for the es
st i tablshment of nitrate plants. But it
is I does not end here. The benefits to
Jr | be derived from them according to
! ir>fQ-nvi<kiira (riven r\llf Viv PnrH him
le self are almost beyond comprehen
. sion. He states that the development
of of the Muscle Shoals, should he sue
?y ceed in securing the lease, would re
ed s*lt in the building up of communi
n-1 ties all around which would be won
ns i derful acquisition to that part of
le, the country, and that electricity for
lit all kinds of power, and for lighting
at and heating purposes would <be avail
rv able, and that it would be largely
he used. Of course, the development of
se the shoals at Calhoun Falls would be
[id followed by similar results,
ty Anderson people have been inter
is ested in Calhoun Falls for a number
to of years, and for this as well as for
ks the reasons stated above, we are
of sure that this announcement will ap
by peal very strongeJy to them.?And
re erson Daily Mail.
f DR.J.S. MOFFATT
The death of the Rev.. J. S.
fatt, D. D., removes from the st
vice of the Associate Reformed Pr(
byterian church and of his fell<
men a gifted and consecrated ma
As the president of Erskine fourte
years he maintained the standards
high thinking and Bound scholars!:
for which that "small, college" h
foe en justly famed for nearly a ce
tury. He was a preacher of no coj
monplace attainments, deeply vera
in the Scriptures, vigorous of mir
a believer in training, firm and cle
in his faith with no thought of s<
in his striving for the Kingdom
God. He had not (many months a^
come to Columbia to begin a pastor
work that promised to be. great
fruitful in the improvement of t
whole community. Taken at a tin
when many years of exertion ai
achievement were seemingly befo
him, his life was full of usefulne
and goodness and long enough f
his contribution to the bettering
mankind to be noteworthy a id pe
jmanent?The State.
CLAIMS RAILROADS MADE
. $600,000,000 IN 1?;
Washington, Jan. 26.?Reducti<
of freight .rates on farm products ar
products of allied industries ar
sharing by both railroad corporation
and labor of "deflation of charg
now affecting all industries was re
ommended in the rfijway transport
tion sub-committee report prepart
early today for submission to tl
transportation committee* of the N
tional Agricultural Conference. Tl
committee declared labor should n<
carry the whole reduction but tl
railroads should take their ehar
saying the railroads made $600,00i
000 profit last year when farmers lo
$7,000,000,000. The committee ah
recommended withdrawal by Co:
gress of authority to the interests
commerce commission to fix valuatic
of real estate held by railroads i
more than its actual cost or moi
than the value of aimilar adjoinir
lands in making up the capital a
count of the railroads.
666cure? Chilli and Fever.
Watch the label on foar paper.
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Men's $20 and $22
Men's $25 Styleph
Men's $27.50, $30
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GAINS WE'Vl
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Boys $15, $16.50 and $
Boys' $10, $12.50 and
Boys $7.50, $8.50 and
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rsoys $>o.ou ana $/.uu J
MEN'S ODi
Men's $10 and $12.50
Men's $6.50, $7.50 and
Men's $4.50, $5 arid $6
Men's $3.50 and $4.00
BOYS (
Boys $7.50- Overcoats
Boys $10.00 Overcoats
BOYS' KNICKEF
Bovs $3, $3.50 and $4
Bovs $2, $2.50 and $2.'
Boys $1.25 and $1.50 I
Boys $1.00 Knickers nc
Boys 65c and 75c Knicl
Prices Quoted Al>
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. WILL JIEOPEN SANK
Depositor* Asked to Allow Honey To
fUaala i
Anderson, Jan 25?The plan of
Jaraeq Craig, bank examiner, to re
open the People's bank was that aH
depositors sign and return a card
stating that they will allow their de
posits to remain in the hank for one
year, the ibank to pay 5 per cent.
Cards to this effect were sent to all
depositors and they are being re
turned. The first day there were
amounts to $477,000, and today Mr
Craig says the cards have been re
turned in excess of $700,000. The
hank has a denost of 1.000.000 and
it is believed that Almost to a mas
the cards will be returned with the
full promise, and Mr Craig says that
he hopes to reopen the back in leas
than 15 days after it closed.
NEGRO CRAP SHOOTERS
SENTENCE THEMSELVES
Newbern, N. C., Jan. 26. A practi
cal application of the proverbial joke
told on the late Judge Crutchfield, of
Richmond, Va., in regard to his meth
od of sentencing "crap shooters" was
made by Judge Edward L. Stewart,
recorder of Beaufort county eourt,
when he let five negroes charged
with gambling sentence themselves
with their own dice.
When the negroes pleaded guilty
to the charge, Judge Stewart asked
one of them for the cubes which were
quickly produced. He told them he
would let each defendant roll the
bones one time and would sentence
them to serve as many months on the
road as the dice indicated. The ne
groes began to roll and talk to the
dice, and they received sentences
ranging from three to twelve months
on the chain gang.
Judge Stewart later changed the
sentences to fines.
FRANK DuPRE TRIAL
BEGINS IN ATLANTA
Atlanta,. Ga., Jan. 26.?The jurj
was completed and first evidence in
troduced in the opening session here
today of the trial of Frank B. DuPre,
alleged slayer of detective Irby
Walker, iq connection with the rob
bery of a jewelry store here shortly
before Christmas. Counsel for Da- ]
Pre entered a plea of not guilty.
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as Suits now $20.00 '
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plus Suits now.. $25.00.
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>17.50 Suits now .... $10.00
$13.50 Suits now . . . $8.50
$9 Suits now $5.50
suits, now . .. $4.00
D TROUSERS
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$8.50 Trousers now . . $5.00
.00 Trousers now .... $3.50
Trousers now $2.50
OVERCOATS
now $5.00
now $6.50
fcBOCKER TROUSERS
Knickerbockers now . . $2.00
75 Knickers now $1.50
vnickers now $1.00
>w 70cts.
<ers now $. . . 50cts.
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Men's $40, $45 and $50 ]
Schlpss Bros. & Co. and
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MEN'S OVERC<
Men's $37.50 and $40 Overcoats r
Men's $27.50, $30, and $35 Overc<
Men's $25.00 Overcoats now ;
Men's $20.00 and $22.50 Overcoa
Men's $15.00 and $16.50 Overcoa
MEri'S AND BOYS
All $3, $2.50 and $2.00 Gaps now
All $1.00 Gaps
All 75 cent Caps now
MEN'S UNDERV
Men's $5 Union Suits now .
Men's $4.00 Union Suits now .
Men's $3.00 Union Suits now
Men"s $2.50 Union Suits now . . .
Men's $2.00 Union Suits now ' . . .
Men's $1.50 Union Suits now I. . .
Men's $4 Undershirt and Drawers
Men's $3 Undershirts and Drawers
Men's $2.50 Undershirts and Draw
Men's $2 Undershirts and Drawers
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ECuppenheimer,
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$30.00.
3ATS.
low $30.00
jats now . . $25.00
$20.00
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>' CAPS
$1.00
75c.
50c.
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$3.00
$2.25
$1.75
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now . . $2.50 each
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